Evaluating energy intake measurement in free-living subjects: When to record and for how long?

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Objective To nutritionally analyse mean energy intake (EI) from different 3 d intervals within a 7 d recording period and to evaluate the seasonal effect on energy and nutrient intake.Design Cross-sectional study of dietary intake collected with 7 d food diaries.Setting Aberdeen, north-east Scotland, UK, between 2002 and 2004.Subjects Participants from two long-term trials were pooled. These trials, investigating genetic and environmental influences on body weight, were the Genotyping And Phenotyping (GAP) study and a cohort observational study, Rowett Assessment of Childhood Appetite and metaboLism (RASCAL). There were 260 Caucasian adults, BMI range 16.7-49.3 kg/m2, age range 21-64 years.Results Mean EI for Wednesday, Friday and Saturday had the closest approximation to the 7 d mean (0.1 % overestimate). A gender season interaction (P = 0.019) with a different intake pattern for females and males was observed. For females, lower mean (se) EI was recorded in summer (8117 (610) kJ) and autumn (7941 (699) kJ) compared with spring (8929 (979) kJ) and winter (8132 (1041) kJ). For males, higher mean (se) EI was recorded in summer (10 420 (736) kJ) and autumn (10 490 (1041) kJ) compared with spring (9319 (1441) kJ) and winter (9103 (1505) kJ).Conclusions The study results indicate that 3 d weighed intakes recorded from Wednesday, Friday and Saturday are most representative of 7 d habitual intake in free-living subjects. They also indicate that seasonality has a limited effect on EI and no effect on macronutrient intake. © 2009 The Authors.

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Fyfe, C. L., Stewart, J., Murison, S. D., Jackson, D. M., Rance, K., Speakman, J. R., … Johnstone, A. M. (2010). Evaluating energy intake measurement in free-living subjects: When to record and for how long? Public Health Nutrition, 13(2), 172–180. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980009991443

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